Number9Dream

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Summary: Number 9 Dream: your move
Review: This book, at 400 pages, is about twice as long as it should have been. I felt as though the author worried that the main issue, that of a twenty year old in search of his father, was too little to go on, so he packed a lot of superfluous stuff into the narrative. Some of it is good, but much of it is not. There is much good prose in this book, and clearly David Mitchell has a gift for good English; but I wish he had striven more to write a powerful book and less to write one that will be remembered for its cleverness.